The Voice of the American People

Sunday, November 20, 2016

Iran wanted "many billions of dollars" from the United States
for the release of multiple American hostage, The Washington Free Beacon
reported recently.According to the
Beacon, senior officials in the Iranian government have been considering
requesting payment for months. Earlier this year, the White House paid $1.7
billion to Iran, $400
million of which was given over on the same day that Iran released four American
prisoners, according to the Los Angeles Times.President Barack Obama's administration denied that the money was a
ransom, claiming that it was the settlement of a decades-old legal claim
between the U.S. and Iran, but admitted that the transaction was
delayed to pressure Iran
into releasing the captives.The rest
of the $1.3 million is said to be interest on Iranian money held in America since
the 70's.

"We're
currently conducting conversations and various dialogues in order to return
this money to Iran,"
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on NBC News in September."Perhaps these dialogues can be still
conducted simultaneously on parallel tracks while we're conducting those same
conversations in order to free the sums of money that are still owed to
us."Iranian news sources,
including Mashregh News, which is closely tied to the Army of the Guardians of
the Islamic Revolution (IRGC), also known as the Revolutionary Guard, report
that Iran "should wait and see, the U.S. will offer … many billions of
dollars to release" Siamak Namazi, an American businessman, and his father
Baquer, according to the Beacon.

"I am saddened to
learn of the sentencing of Baquer Namazi and his son Siamak by Iran this
week," Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill.,
told the Beacon. Kirk chairs the Senate Banking Subcommittee on National
Security and International Trade and Finance, and supervises the government's
sanctions policy on Iran.

"After airlifting $1.7 billion in cash
ransom payments to Iran,"
Kirk continued. "Even the U.S. State Department ‎now warns of increased
dangers that the world's biggest state sponsor of terrorism will continue to
illegally seize Americans and Westerners who travel or do business with Iran.
Companies, banks, and American citizens would be wise to stay away from Iran."

Back
in May of this year, Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister
Javad Zarif led their respective delegations in the nuclear negotiations in Austria and Switzerland.Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday
rejected the notion that it’s America’s
job to promote business with Iran
following the nuclear deal, but again underscored that the U.S. government is not standing in the way of
European companies doing business with Tehran.Except in the case of those companies and
individuals that remain designated by the U.S.
government for non nuclear-related sanctions, Iran
is “open for business,” he said in London.“Banks in Europe are allowed to open
accounts for Iran, banks in
Europe are allowed to do business, banks in Europe can fund programs, lend
money,” Kerry told reporters ahead of a meeting with European bankers focused
on Iran.”“That’s absolutely open for business, as
long as it’s not a designated entity, period. Very simple.”

Iranian officials, led by
Kerry’s counterpart and nuclear negotiating partner Javad Zarif, have been
complaining bitterly about European companies’ reluctance to do business with Iran now that
many sanctions have been lifted under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
(JCPOA) nuclear deal.

But Kerry said European firms in some cases
were using U.S. sanctions as
an “excuse” for not seeking opportunities in Iran.“Businesses should not use the United States
as an excuse if they don’t want to do business or if they don’t see a good
business deal,” he said. “They shouldn’t say, ‘Oh, we can’t do it because [of]
the United States.’
That’s just not fair. That’s not accurate. And we sometimes get used as an
excuse in this process.”European
banks, he repeated, “are absolutely free to open accounts for Iran, trade,
exchange money, facilitate a legitimate business agreement, bankroll it, lend
money. All of those things are absolutely open, permissible.”A reporter asked Kerry why it was the job of
the U.S. to advocate for
companies to do business in Iran.

“It’s not our job to sell
them on doing business,” he replied. “It’s our job to make clear to them what
the rules are, that’s all. I mean, we’re not telling people what to go do, but
we are telling people what they’re allowed to do, and there seems to be some
confusion about that.”“Iran has a
right to the benefits of the agreement they signed up to,” Kerry said.Addressing lawmakers in Tehran
at the weekend, Zarif complained that Iran’s
“enemies, especially that Zionists,” were trying hard “to deter foreign
investors from participating in Iran.”“Consequently, we must promote the fact that
Iran
is the safest and most profitable country for investment,” he said.U.S., U.N., and multilateral nuclear-related
sanctions were lifted with effect from the JCPOA’s “implementation day” last
January 16, but numerous other U.S. sanctions remain in place, including
measures imposed in response to human rights violations, the regime’s
sponsorship of terrorism, and ballistic missile activities.

They include direct sanctions against more
than 200 designated Iranian companies and individuals – according to a top
Treasury official – and “secondary” sanctions, or those targeting firms in
third countries that do business with designated Iranian entities.Complicating the situation is the fact that
some of the U.S.
sanctions overlap, targeting both nuclear and non-nuclear issues.

The 2010 Comprehensive
Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act, for example, takes aim at
the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and those that do business with the IRGC,
for its involvement in the nuclear program as well as international terrorism
and rights abuses.The 2012 Iran Threat
Reduction Act imposes sanctions in response to support for the nuclear program,
rights abuses and/or international terrorism.Further, none of the U.S.
measures targeting the IRGC and its affiliates have been waived or suspended as
a result of JCPOA implementation. But the IRGC is suspected of having interests
in many sectors of the Iranian economy, and not all the links are publicly
known.A bipartisan lobby group opposed
to the JCPOA has launched a campaign warning foreign companies about the risks
– financial, legal and reputational – in doing business with Tehran.United Against a Nuclear Iran (UANI) said Tuesday it has sent dozens of
letters to leading corporations, “warning of the myriad endemic risks involving
Iran,”
and that it plans to contact hundreds more in the coming months.Those contacted already include corporations
actively considering opportunities in Iran, including General Electric,
Fiat Chrysler, Siemens, Canadian aircraft maker Bombardier and the Danish
container operator Maersk.

UANI said it has also been
in touch with major South Korean companies. South Korean President Park
Geun-hye visited Iran
early this month, accompanied by more than 200 business executives. Agreements
for construction and energy projects worth $45.6 billion were signed.In an earlier open letter to businesses,
UANI warned it was risky doing business in Iran post-JCPOA.Noting the IRGC’s penetration of many
sectors of Iran’s economy, the
letter said doing business in Iran
without also doing business with the IRGC would be virtually impossible.

“This risk is only further amplified
because the IRGC routinely operates through an extensive network of front
companies that mask the IRGC’s involvement,” it said. “An international firm
active in Iran could
therefore easily conduct or facilitate transactions with the IRGC or one of its
affiliates or front companies, potentially triggering costly penalties under U.S.
sanctions.”UANI also cautioned firms
about the risk to their reputation of doing business with a regime that
sponsors terrorism, violates its citizens’ rights, and “remains an
international outlaw and force for instability.”UANI was founded in 2008 by Mark Wallace, a former U.S. ambassador to the U.N., former
CIA Director James Woolsey, former U.S. Mideast negotiator Dennis Ross and the
late assistant secretary of state Richard Holbrooke.

Others associated with it include former
CIA acting director Michael Morell and former Attorney-General Michael Mukasey.
Its chairman is former Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman.Speaking to CNBC last Thursday, Lieberman
said UANI was asking companies mulling business with Iran to “wait a second. Do you
really want to do business in this country?”

Asked about the argument
that doing business with Iran
is precisely what is needed to help effect change, Lieberman said one had but
to look at the conduct of Iranian officials, from supreme leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei down, since the JCPOA was concluded.“There’s no indication that post the Iran
nuclear agreement, this radical, expansionist, terroristic administration in Tehran has changed,” he
said.Still, our government continues
blithely down the road, ignoring all the signposts.Are we, collectively, the scarecrow looking
to the wizard for some brains?We
certainly are acting as if we don’t have any now.

Parting shot.Anybody want to take a guess what that 400 million
dollars, in cash, is going to buy for Iran?They say it was ransom for the four
prisoners.Our government says it was
money we owed them.Really?It’s funny that they demanded, and got it,
all in cash, and that no prisoners were released until the cash was in their
hands.Wake up America, your
country needs you…desperately.

Sunday, November 13, 2016

I saw this the other
day and almost threw my coffee mug at the monitor…you may have a different
reaction. Young men are more into makeup now, so naturally the beauty
brands are there to market to the growing gender-neutral trends of Generation
Z, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday, October 19th.
The article went on to say…"Gender matters less than it used to,"
Lucie Greene, worldwide director of the J. Walter Thompson Innovation Group,
told the Times. "If you're a youth brand, it's something you need to
embrace and understand. It's this very self-confident, hyper-individual
generation who are constructing their identity in fashion and makeup outside of
their traditional gender buckets."

CoverGirl recently
signed teen makeup artist James Charles as its first male face, marking a
movement to appeal to Generation Z's trends. J. Walter Thompson
Innovation Group's report earlier this year revealed, per the Times: 56 percent
of Generation Z know someone relating to gender-neutral pronouns of
"they," "them," or "ze;". Only 44
percent bought clothes restricted for their gender; 70 percent support
gender-neutral bathrooms. It is far more trendy than ever to be in
the gender-neutral crowd. "This idea of choice, being
whoever you want to be — it's something that is acceptable more and more,"
art director Fabien Baron told the Times. "It's like the gay evolution in
the 60's and the 80's. It's the normal continuation of what should have been
happening decades ago."

It’s not just the physical condition in which the United States is being
wussified…it’s everything!

The Federal Bureau of Investigation used
to be held in the highest esteem…not so much anymore.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the
FBI usually only “proffers” immunity deals in return for genuine information
and requirements that the recipients cooperate with other investigating bodies,
such as Congress. That said, in this specific case its unclear what the
FBI received in return for their immunity deals other than what they could have
otherwise taken with a subpoena. As Jim Jordan said, “if the FBI wanted
any other Americans’ laptops, they would just go get them—they wouldn’t get an
immunity deal.” But, of course, by offering immunity, the FBI exempted
the laptops and their emails as potential evidence in a criminal case.

Here’s what Rep.
Jordan, Republican from Ohio said about the
FBI’s decision to grant immunity to Clinton’s
IT crew: “Here’s the takeaway in my mind: Cheryl Mills gets a heads up in
mid-summer of 2014. July 23, the day before Mr. Combetta’s Reddit post, the
House Benghazi Committee and the State Dept. reached an agreement on production
of documents. Mills has a conversation with Paul Combetta. He goes on Reddit
then, and tries to figure out how he can get rid of all this email. Even though
he is not successful then, he has to do it later on with BleachBit. And then
the clincher: Just last week, he’s going online and trying to delete these
Reddit posts. He’s trying to delete his tracks. He’s trying to cover up the
cover-up.

The same guy later
took BleachBit and did delete the emails. The guy you gave immunity to, the guy
who took the Fifth in front of us, is online trying to figure out how to remove
email addresses (change evidence). That guy who later used Bleachbit, who won’t
testify in front of Congress, has correspondence with [Hillary Clinton chief of
staff] Cheryl Mills, a subject of the investigation. Cheryl Mills, who also got
some kind of immunity agreement. Cheryl Mills, who walked out for part of the
questions during her interview with the FBI.”

Director Comey, when
he first testified about Hillary Clinton, ran down a laundry list of the things
she did wrong, the things in which she broke the law…and then gave her a
get-out-of-jail-free-card because he said the intent wasn’t clear enough.
For me, the initials FBI now mean Fink’s Battalion of Idiots. From
the Bleachbit site we have this explanation of what it is…When your computer is
getting full, BleachBit quickly frees disk space. When your information is only
your business, BleachBit guards your privacy. With BleachBit you can free
cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete
logs, and discard junk you didn't know was there. Designed for Linux and
Windows systems, it wipes clean thousands of applications including Firefox,
Internet Explorer, Adobe Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari,and more.
Beyond simply deleting files, BleachBit includes advanced features such as
shredding files to prevent recovery, wiping free disk space to hide traces of
files deleted by other applications, and vacuuming Firefox to make it faster.
Better than free, BleachBit is open source.

South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy. says Hillary Clinton's team deleted emails
"so even God couldn't read them" using BleachBit. As a
little boy I tried to hide things from my mother by putting them behind my
back. As I got older, I found better hiding places, and technology has
helped millions to hide stuff they don’t want found. The question
to be asked is this…what was so terrible in the emails that they had to be
completely destroyed? We may never know. What we DO
know is that America IS being fundamentally transformed, as Hussein said he’d
do, he just didn’t tell us that we’d be changing from being a great nation into
something rapidly resembling Venezuela!

Sunday, October 30, 2016

Major Swedish journalist Cecilia Hagen wrote in a recent
column about how much she detests rats. However, there was a political
connotation. Hagen said called anyone that did not support what is, in effect,
an Islamic invasion of Europe, is a “brown rat” and deserves to be
exterminated.The Bar Association
Secretary General Anne Ramberg recently wrote in which she called
anti-immigrant politicians “brown rats”.Hagen begins her chronicle with
addressing the persistent problem of rats in Stockholm. Then she directed the focus toward
people with immigration critical opinions. “It’s those other councilmen who I
would like to wipe out in a dignified manner.She asks a little later how best to “get rid of human brown rats” and
suggests the use of poison.

Apparently, Ms. Hagen is one of the many voices that will
not expose the corruption of her own government as it has covered up gang rape
that is directly caused by a program that paid children to spend time with
Muslims. Also, no one heard a peep from her when thebiggest child sex
exploitation in the country’s history, involving Muslims, was reported in 2015.
And should we even bring up the rioting that took place in 2013? Yep, Islamists
were at the core of that too.However,
this woman wants to blame her countrymen for the crimes of the Muslim invaders.
It’s sick!Consider what the outrage
would be had this column referred to Muslims as “brown rats” that need to be
exterminated. I’m not advocating for extermination of any people group, but
rather the preaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ that can even turn the
hearts of those who believe the anti-Christ doctrines of Islam. If that takes
place, we would see no reason to be concerned with Islam anymore because it
would not exist.

The problem in today’s world is that men are quicker to bear
the carnal weapons than they are skilled in the use of spiritual ones.Ms. Hagen should be ashamed of herself for calling
out her fellow countrymen who oppose those who follow in the footsteps of
Muhammad from entering and destroying their homeland. Give us brave voices not
only in Sweden,
but throughout the world who expose Islam for what it is and provide a meaningful
solution to its destruction.

Let’s talk a bit about that Orlando
shooter…The gunman who killed 49 people at a gay Orlando nightclub early on that Sunday
morning apparently prepared for his own death before the shooting.Omar Mateen, 29, added his wife, 30-year-old
Noor Salman, to his life-insurance policy and gave her access to his bank
accounts, CNN reported on Friday, June 17th, citing unidentified
law-enforcement sources.Now, Salman
has left the area where the couple lived, according to the Sun Sentinel.She's "no longer here," Omar
Mateen's father, Seddique, told reporters outside of his Fort Pierce, Florida,
home on Wednesday.Salman was reportedly
living with Mateen's father in Fort
Pierce when her husband attacked the nightclub. Public
records list her most recent address — presumably where she lived with Mateen
after they married in 2013 — as a 15-minute drive from his father's home in Fort Pierce.But Seddique told reporters that Salman was
no longer in the area, either.

I’m reminded of the little boy in the post office, looking
at the wanted posters.He asks his
father what the posters are about and the father tells him that those are
dangerous people and the police are looking for them.The little boy then says to his father, “Dad,
why didn’t they keep them when they took their picture?”Good question…why didn’t we detain(at the
very least) anyone that goes to a “hot” country and returns to the US.The FBI, which has lost all credibility in my
opinion, seems to operate on a catch-and-release system, much like the Border
Patrol.Wake up America, your
country needs you…desperately.

Al, this is Sylvia’s
blog…have a good weekend, and hope you’re feeling better. J

The Veteran’s Administration is not giving the veterans a
fair shake.

The
Veteran’s Administration’s corruption, neglect and abuse is still around and
probably is bigger than ever.When a man
or woman joins any of the services, they, in essence, sign a blank check
payable to the United States
of America for an amount of and up to
including their life.This was written
anonymously by a veteran, and how true it is.Then these brave souls go out and fight to protect and preserve our
freedoms at great cost to them and their families.So when these heroes come home they deserve
the very best medical care that this country can give them.But that hasn’t happened in the past and
it’s certainly not happening now.

In 2014, the
VA got a new director, Robert McDonald, who has done very little to rid this
agency of the corruption, apathy and abuse.Meanwhile, President Barack Obama’s administration appears to be working
very hard to keep all this mess going on at the VA hidden from the public.Problems and horror stories continue to
emerge from VA hospitals and clinics across the country.Why should a veteran have to wait thirty
days for a doctor’s appointment and, in many cases, a lot longer?Secret “wait lists” have been found that
conceal how long it really takes to get the health care that these men and
women deserve.The vets are often
denied or have to wait months for screenings, such as colonoscopies and
endoscopies.Consults with specialists
are hard to come by and there seems to be a large amount of neglect.Those suffering from PTSD in many cases have
not had adequate treatment and some have committed suicide while waiting to be
cared for.Veterans have complained of
having to wait long hours only to be greeted by an uncaring, arrogant, employee
who shows no respect.This is the
culture of the VA and nobody is ever held accountable.This is truly disgraceful.

So, what can
be done to change things at the Veterans Administration’s hospitals and
clinics?If they are to continue to
exist there must be some significant changes.Here are some suggestions:

*Get a new
director

*Involve
veterans groups

*Get rid of the deadwood bureaucrats who have collected big
salaries and great perks while doing harm to our vets

*Give the jobs at the VA to veterans who will show empathy,
respect and understanding to their fellow vets and will work diligently to get
them quality care

*All systems used by each institution should be reviewed and
revised

*There is a provision for vets to get care from outside
sources if they are unable to get it from the VA.I wonder how many know about this?

There are many who think that the Veteran’s Administration’s
health care system is beyond repair and should be dismantled.This is currently an overgrown bureaucracy
which has lost sight of what their prime focus should be…delivering quality
care on a timely basis to our veterans in an atmosphere of respect, trust and
compassion.Recently, Mr. Obama said
everything is fine at the VA, and Hillary agreed.However, Donald Trump thinks that there
needs to be significant change.So,
veterans, for whom will you be voting on November 8th?

Monday, October 24, 2016

CONCLUSION.A few years back there was a series of disaster films, with worldwide catastrophe as the focal point. One in particular, a story of a huge comet striking the earth, impressed me a lot. As I watched the film a thought came to me…what if the end of the world was to come by a comet? How would the population of the earth respond? Would they be as calm as the people in the film or would they riot and revert back to anarchy? Looking around at the riots that have occurred in the last two years, for the deaths of people who may or may not have been guilty, they seem rather petty compared to the end of the world. Now, having said that, and not knowing the full story on most of the killings and subsequent riots, it does appear that one or two people are not tipping the scale over an estimated seven billion that would be lost. Terrorism is quite a different story, I believe. Jihadis are following edicts in their holy book, but that doesn’t make it any the less horrible…nor does it excuse them from complete annihilation when a large object strikes the earth. So…what do you do when you, and the rest of the world, is threatened with extinction? In the films there’s always survivors and they always have a good outlook. Reality is a bit more stark, I think. When the world is destroyed, it won’t really matter where you are, who you are, or what you’ve done. You will go wherever your bits and pieces go. If you are a believer you’ll go to some sort of heaven or paradise…or hell. As gruesome as this all sounds it is a very real possibility because scientists say that it happened once before, which is why the dinosaur age came to a sudden halt…and it could very well happen again.Also years ago there was a book about this big blue ball that we live on, and the author treated it as if it were a spaceship hurtling through space…which, in fact, it is. He proposed that earthlings look to other planets to colonize just because earth might disappear one day. Jules Verne, back in 1865, was already thinking about going to the moon, and in 1968, we did just that, and landed a man on the moon and returned him safely to earth. We’re now contemplating expeditions to Mars which is the next-closest to our own planet. Trips to Mars are not going to be short ones, and from what I’ve read, young people could grow old on such a trip. Is Mars even habitable for earthlings? This is from a site called Mars.com , After the Earth, Mars is the most habitable planet in our solar system due to several reasons: Its soil contains water to extract…It isn’t too cold or too hot…there is enough sunlight to use solar panels…Gravity on Mars is 38% that of our Earth's, which is believed by many to be sufficient for the human body to adapt to…It has an atmosphere (albeit a thin one) that offers protection from cosmic and the Sun's radiation…The day/night rhythm is very similar to ours here on Earth: a Mars day is 24 hours, 39 minutes and 35 seconds…so you can appreciate why Mars may be the new home for earthlings.Maybe this gave you something to think about. I hope so. As Bogie says, the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world…and that’s just as true as if you said 3 billion, because when it’s over, it’s over.My parting shot is this, sent in by a reader. I think it’s humorous, and if it offends anyone…too bad. “Heaven is where the police are British, the chefs Italian, the mechanics German, the lovers French and it’s all organized by the Swiss. Hell is where the police are German, the chefs British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss, and it’s all organized by the Italians.” If you have comments, get me at amafrog@att.net I answer everything.

Sunday, October 16, 2016

Recently, the House Republicans’ continuing investigation of
Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server onprompted new subpoenas, three witnesses
taking the Fifth Amendment and one Clinton
family information technology aide explained his use of a hammer to destroy his
boss’ obsolete mobile devices.Justin
Cooper, a 15-year all-purpose employee of the Clinton family, was the only IT
specialist among four invited by the House Oversight and Government Reform
Committee to testify rather than invoke his right not to incriminate
himself.The result was new detail on
the origins of the private server in Clinton’s Chappaqua, N.Y.,
home following an FBI investigation that found “carelessness” by her but no
grounds for prosecution. Republicans said they are just getting started in
asking what they see as unanswered questions about the security and
transparency of Clinton’s
arrangement, while Democrats called the series of hearings a redundant,
politically motivated election-year “photo op.”

Asked why, as the FBI reported this month, he took a hammer
to one of Clinton’s
mobile devices, Cooper said “it was not done in any way to destroy or hide
information” but to avoid “putting it in the trash where someone could find
it.” He stressed that whenever he switched Clinton to a new mobile device, he “felt it
was good practice” to destroy the old one after all data had been transferred
and backed up.Cooper said the Clintons never discussed
with him any issues about the Federal Records Act or the Freedom of Information
Act. On the contrary, he said, he went to great lengths to fully transfer all
data from the old device to the new.On
questioning by Republicans, however, Cooper acknowledged that he did not have
security clearance, despite having access to many State Department emails in
the course of helping both Bill and Hillary Clinton. When he found some
official content on his own backup computer, he said, he turned it over to his
attorneys who relayed them to the FBI.

Cooper, who now works as a consultant for a variety of
clients but not the Clintons, also acknowledged that he was not an IT expert;
he was the “interface” with the Clintons.
The “engineering” and security of the private server were the province of Bryan Pagliano—whom
Republicans had invited as the key witness. Pagliano declined to show up at the
hearing.It was after the Clinton presidential campaign of 2008 shut down, Cooper
said, that Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin asked him to work with Pagliano,
who had bought surplus computers from the campaign, on setting up Apple iMacs
in the Clinton’s New York
and Washington homes to relay emails to Clinton’s BlackBerry.
“They had a desire to change her email address because a number of people had
that address,” he said, calling it a “matter of convenience” to add her account
to the existing, Secret Service-protected server being used by former President
Clinton.

Later, “user problems” surfaced, and Pagliano thought they
needed to expand to a “more robust” system that he helped physically install in
March 2009. The only people with email accounts on the server, Cooper said,
were Hillary Clinton, Abedin and Chelsea Clinton.Cooper said he was not around when the
server was moved to a secure room in the home after Hillary Clinton became
secretary of State. “I’ve never been in a position to be technical expert on
either the server or whether classified email was sent to secretary,” said
Cooper. He did acknowledge, when asked by Rep. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., about
the risks of hacking attacks by Russia
and China,
that this “is something to be concerned about.”In response to other lawmakers’ questions,
he said he was paid by the Clinton
family executive services contractor, and that he is paying his own attorney
fees during the investigation.

Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, opened the
hearing by saying, “Hillary Clinton as secretary of State for roughly four
years helped create one of what is reported to be one of the biggest security
breaches in the history of the State Department and it is an absolute
mess.”He said he wanted to hear from Pagliano
and two officials from Platte River Networks—the private firm that later
supervised Clinton’s
server—to learn details on how the server would have been safeguarded against
hacking when there was “no encryption, no dual authentication.” Chaffetz said
Pagliano was hired at the State Department as a GS-15 but failed to report that
he was also being paid by the Clintons.And Chaffetz wanted Platte River Networks
employees Bill Thornton and Paul Combetta to explain an email released by the
FBI that appears to express the firm’s anxiety about being asked in March 2015
to delete past Clinton
emails without a written agreement staying why—given the fact that a
congressional committee would subpoena them.

Neither employee present would speak beyond invoking, on
advice of counsel, the Fifth Amendment. Their silence and the absence of
Pagliano prompted Chaffetz to decry the way Pagliano “thumbed his nose at the
U.S. Congress.I will continue to
explore all options,” Chaffetz added. “Anyone under the illusion that I’m going
to let it go and sail off into the sunset is mistaken.”Ranking member Elijah Cummings, D-Md., said,
“Today is our third emergency hearing about Secretary Clinton’s emails in four
business days.I believe this committee
is abusing taxpayer dollars and the authority of Congress in an astonishing
onslaught of political attacks to damage Secretary Clinton’s campaign for
president.” Stressing that the FBI had already concluded a professional
investigation that found no criminal liability, Cummings said, “The point of
today’s hearing is to investigate baseless Republican accusations that
Secretary Clinton or her aides ordered the destruction of emails to conceal
them from investigators.” He argued for having Pagliano, whom the Justice
Department granted immunity, testify in an executive session.

Republicans made it plain that the issue isn’t fading soon.
Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, the chairman of the Science, Space and Technology
Committee who was permitted to attend and pose questions, said he had just
issued three more subpoenas to private IT firms working on the Clinton server.
Their responses, he said, suggest “obstruction of justice” and “continues a Clinton habit of secrecy,
not transparency.”In gaveling the
hearing to a close, Chaffetz announced it was being recessed to a later
date.

What I deduced from this is that, even when
a Congressional subpoena is issued, you don’t have to show up, if you work for
the right people.If you or I refused to
show up when subpoenaed by a lower court, you can bet they would issue a bench
warrant and we’d go straight to jail, not passing GO and not getting two
hundred dollars either!

Sunday, October 9, 2016

She lies even when lies gain her
nothing, and REWARDS corruption among her inner circle, (looking at YOU, Debbie
Wasserman-Schultz). In that environment, even little inconsistencies begin to
look suspicious.Remember the health
story? Cough, cough. ‘Feeling fine’… ‘Just allergies’… Doctor Drew weighs in, gets his
show cancelled… Collapse… ‘just overheated’… People tweet weather
conditions… ok, it’s Pneumonia.This is
the deception Hillary’s famous for… she even had the primaries in her own
‘Democratic’ Party ‘rigged’. And when DWS resigned in shame? She was
immediately snapped up by the Clinton campaign.First off, we already knew Hillary had a
custom-built podium, presumably to minimize the apparent difference in height
between the candidates. That’s where this latest controversy begins.

First, there was the
video clip from the end of the debate of someone (dubbed ‘The Cleaner’) taking
a folder away from Hillary’s podium, before walking past the moderator’s
table.The question being asked by
some, is ‘did Hillary have advance notice of the questions?’Hillary seemed a little ‘too’ ready for the
questions. Is this the same Hillary who didn’t understand that ‘C’ stood for
Classified?We now know who they guy in
the clip is: The Cleaner has been identified as Brady Williamson, a long time
democrat operative and three-decade member of the democrat debate negotiation
team.One keen observer noticed a glint
of light off of Hillary’s podium that was not seen on Trump’s.If Hillary were generally thought to be
honest, this would probably be waved away as a trick of the light shining off
the polished wood. But Hillary has a track record of gaming the system, doesn’t
she?Find the video of the debate, and
notice which podium has all the activity around it? You probably want to watch this with the
sound down, because it goes way past actual observable details, and ventures
into wild conjecture, especially after the 10-minute mark. But it points out
the observable differences between the podiums that are giving some observers
pause.And again, we emphasize — if
Hillary had been an honorable woman, none of this would EVER have even come up
in the first place.

Democrat
presidential nominee Hillary Clinton claims to care about every American. What
does she really think about those who can’t help her out, though? As November
comes closer, we look back at one incident involving her luggage that could
tell us a lot about how a Clinton presidency might look.Back in 2014, FBI agent Gary Aldridge
published a book called “Unlimited Access,” dealing with his time at the
bureau. A lot of the most explosive details from it had to deal with Aldridge’s
interactions with the first family during the 1990s — specifically, with
Hillary Clinton.

According to the U.K. Daily Mail, and to
nobody’s surprise, Hillary Clinton was considered a pain to work with and
was nasty to almost anyone she came across. She mistreated Secret Service
agents and pretty much every person in the White House apparatus.

On
one occasion, she asked an FBI agent to carry her luggage. That wasn’t part of
his detail, and insulting at the very least. When he declined, she exploded at
him.“Stay the f*** away from me! Just
f***ing do as I say!” Clinton reportedly told the agent. Classy.We’ve all heard the tales about how Clinton has mistreated the Secret
Service or our men in uniform, which should be a good enough reason not
to vote for her. Behind the supposedly equable exterior lies someone who isn’t
exactly the most grounded individual.Remember:
After Hillary Clinton gets your vote (or, hopefully, not), she doesn’t have to
kiss up to you anymore. You’re just another FBI agent who should be handling
her baggage. We’re all going to be Hillary Clinton’s baggage handlers, and it’s
going to come at the expense of our economy, our constitutional rights and our
security.Is this the woman you want as
our commander in chief? I certainly don’t.

And,
even newer was the leaked audio tapes and how Clinton really thinks about the
millennials.Hacked audio of a
conversation between Hillary Clinton and donors during a February fundraising
event shows the Democrat nominee describing Bernie Sanders supporters as
"children of the Great Recession" who are "living in their
parents’ basement."Speaking at a
Virginia fundraiser hosted by former U.S. ambassador Beatrice Welters, Clinton
says in a clip released by the Free Beacon that many of her former primary
opponent's supporters sought things like “free college, free health care,”
saying that she preferred to occupy the space "from the center-left to the
center-right" on the political spectrum. During the conversation, also reported in the
Intercept, Clinton confesses to feeling "bewildered" by those to
her far-left and far-right in the election.

"There is a strain
of, on the one hand, the kind of populist, nationalist, xenophobic,
discriminatory kind of approach that we hear too much of from the Republican
candidates," she said. "And on the other side, there’s just a deep
desire to believe that we can have free college, free healthcare, that what
we’ve done hasn’t gone far enough, and that we just need to, you know, go as
far as, you know, Scandinavia, whatever that means, and half the people don’t
know what that means, but it’s something that they deeply feel."

While stressing the
need to not serve as a "wet blanket on idealism," Clinton paints fans
of the then-surging Vermont senator as political newbies attempting to deal
with an economy that has fallen short of their expectations."Some are new to politics completely.
They’re children of the Great Recession. And they are living in their parents’
basement," she said. "They feel they got their education and the jobs
that are available to them are not at all what they envisioned for themselves.
And they don’t see much of a future."Clinton added: "If you’re feeling like you’re consigned to, you
know, being a barista, or you know, some other job that doesn’t pay a lot, and
doesn’t have some other ladder of opportunity attached to it, then the idea
that maybe, just maybe, you could be part of a political revolution is pretty
appealing."

"I think we all
should be really understanding of that," Clinton said.The audio, which according to the Free
Beacon was "revealed by hackers who breached the email account of a
campaign staffer," surfaces the same week that Sanders hit the campaign
trail to try to win those same young voters that Clinton has struggled to
attract since clinching the Democratic nomination. For Sanders to cave in as he did, there
had to be a deal that was made, and I’ll bet a steak dinner on that!

The Democrat Party relentlessly panders
to the Hispanic community to get votes.Vice Presidential nominee Tim Kaine sank to new depths of shameless
political spins during a recent CNN interview.But what shocked viewers was that his statement was such an over-the-top
lie that he got called out by the liberal host.Appearing on CNN’s New Day, Hillary’s
running mate – Senator Tim Kaine – claimed that sanctuary cities don’t exist.Mediaite reports:

“Democratic vice presidential candidate
Tim Kaine was called out by CNN New Day host Chris Cuomo Thursday after
suggesting that sanctuary cities– localities that refuse to cooperate with
federal immigration officials– do not actually exist.“I trust the voters of communities to hold
their mayors and their police departments responsible,” Kaine said. “When
Donald Trump kind of goes after these phantom ‘sanctuary cities’ and talks
about how bad they are, basically what he’s going after is police chiefs. And I
trust police chiefs in terms of knowing what should be done to keep their
communities safer and police departments and mayors a lot more than I trust
Donald Trump.”

That was too much even
for Chris Cuomo – the son of liberal icon and former Governor of New York,
Mario Cuomo.

Mediaite further reports on the host
taking Kaine to task: “Cuomo took issue with Kaine’s insistence that the idea of
sanctuary cities was only “phantom.” “But why do you say ‘phantom’? You know
that there are places that refuse to cooperate with Immigrant Customs
Enforcement and they have their assembly of different reasons for why they do
it, but sanctuary cities are real,” he said.“They exist, they’re not phantom,” he continued. “And a lot of people
believe that, you know, you have those people being rewarded for not working
hand in hand with ICE.”

Sanctuary cities became
a hot-button issue during the campaign after the murder of Kate Steinle.Steinle was killed by an illegal immigrant
who had previously been deported five times, but was able to roam freely in the
sanctuary city of San Francisco.CNN
reports on the circumstances surrounding her murder: “On the evening of July 1,
2015, Steinle was walking on a busy pier of the Embarcadero with her father
when there was a single popping sound in the air. The 32-year-old medical
device sales representative was shot in the chest, a bullet piercing her aorta,
according to the lawsuit.Her father,
James, held her in his arms. “Help me Daddy,” were her last words to him, the
lawsuit said. She died later at a hospital.The man accused of firing the deadly shot — 45-year-old Juan Francisco
Lopez-Sanchez — is an undocumented immigrant and a repeat felon who has been deported
five times to Mexico, according to the suit.”

San Francisco is one of
over two hundred sanctuary cities in the United States where elected officials
refuse to enforce federal immigration laws.Trump has made ending sanctuary cities one of the
ten proposed immigration reforms.He
said he will withhold federal funding from cities that refuse to enforce our
immigration laws.The Democrat and
Republican tickets clearly have different priorities on immigration.Hillary has promised amnesty in the first
100 days, and Tim Kaine claims sanctuary cities don’t exist.Trump has promised to secure our border,
build a wall that Mexico will pay for, end illegal immigration, and transform
our immigration system into one that serves American interests and American
workers.

Parting
shot…I would say those are worthwhile goals
and I believe Trump is the one that can do them.If, however, your thinking is that we should
have four more years of Obama, his failed policies and lies, then, by all
means, vote for Mrs. Clinton.

Sunday, October 2, 2016

Some things may never come to light if the mainstream media has their
way.They are the public relations arm of the Democrat party so it follows that any
negative news is going to be buried or diverted.So, here’s something for you to think about…Breitbart
News, on August 2nd, 2016 reports that Khizr Khan, the Muslim Gold
Star father that Democrats and their allies media wide have been using to
hammer GOP presidential nominee Donald J. Trump, has deleted his law firm’s
website from the Internet.This
development is significant, as his website proved—as Breitbart News and others
have reported—that he financially benefits from unfettered pay-to-play Muslim
migration into America.His website, shows that as a lawyer he
engages in procurement of EB5 immigration visas and other “Related Immigration
Services.”The website is completely
removed from the Internet, and instead directs visitors to the URL at which it
once was to a page parking the URL run by GoDaddy.

The EB5 program, which helps wealthy foreigners usually from
the Middle East essentially buy their way into America, is fraught with corruption.
U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has
detailed such corruption over the past several months, and in February issued a
blistering statement about it.“Maybe
it is only here on Capitol Hill—on this island surrounded by reality—that we
can choose to plug our ears and refuse to listen to commonly accepted facts,”
Grassley said in a statement earlier this year. “The Government Accountability
Office, the media, industry experts, members of congress, and federal agency officials,
have concurred that the program is a serious problem with serious
vulnerabilities. Allow me to mention a few of the flaws.”

Grassley’s statement even noted that the program Khan
celebrated on his website has posed national security risks.“There are also classified reports that
detail the national security, fraud and abuse. Our committee has received
numerous briefings and classified documents to show this side of the story,”
Grassley said in the early February 2016 statement. “The enforcement arm of the
Department of Homeland Security wrote an internal memo that raises significant
concerns about the program. One section of the memo outlines concerns that it
could be used by Iranian operatives to infiltrate the United States.
The memo identifies seven main areas of program vulnerability, including the
export of sensitive technology, economic espionage, use by foreign government
agents and terrorists, investment fraud, illicit finance and money laundering.”

Khan spoke alongside his wife Ghazala Khan at the Democratic
National Convention last week in Philadelphia, and they were honoring their son
U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan—a hero who lost his life to a suicide bomber in
Iraq in 2004. On behalf of Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Democratic nominee for president,
Khizr Khan ripped into Donald Trump’s policies on immigration—specifically
bashing his plan to bar Muslim migration from regions afflicted with rampant
terrorism into America
temporarily until the United
States can figure out what’s going on.Khan even brought out a pocket Constitution,
claiming inaccurately that Trump’s plans were unconstitutional. That’s not
true, as Congress has already granted such power to the president under the
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952—allowing the president to bar migration
of any alien or class of aliens the president sees as a threat to the United States
for any reason at any time. Such a class of aliens could be Muslims, or it
could be people from a specific region of the world, or any other class—such as
someone’s race, weight, height, age, national origin, religion, or anything
else.

The media, along with Hillary Clinton and her supporters
throughout the Democratic Party establishment, has pushed the line of attack
against Trump for days. Now on Tuesday, President Barack Obama has said that
Trump is “unfit” to serve as President over the matter. Even a group of
anti-Trump congressional Republicans has gone after Trump on the matter.But as Breitbart News and other new media
have exposed Khan’s various deep political and legal connections to the Clintons—and to Muslim
migration—the attack line has crumbled. Now, with Khan deleting his website in
an apparent effort to hide his biographical information, the attack is falling
apart even more.

What’s perhaps interesting is that also on this website that
he has now deleted, Khan revealed that he spent nearly a decade working for the
mega-D.C. law firm Hogan & Hartson—now Hogan Lovells LLP—which connects him
directly with the government of Saudi
Arabia and the Clintons themselves. Saudi Arabia,
which has retained the firm that Khan worked at for years, has donated between
$10 million and $25 million to the Clinton Foundation. Hillary Clinton, despite
the repeated urging of Trump, has refused to return the Clinton Cash money to
the Saudis. What’s more, Hogan Lovells also did Hillary Clinton’s taxes—and
helped acquire the patents for parts of the technology she used in crafting her
illicit home-brew email server that the FBI director called “extremely
careless” in handling classified information.

What’s more, the entire mainstream has proven negligence
with regard to this matter as none of them even thought to look into this Khan
guy’s law practice before bandying him about as some kind of magic elixir that
cures the country of Trump.That’s the
end of the Breitbart report.As I
see it, this is just one more distraction away from seeing the real Hillary
Clinton…but this shiny object that we’re drawn to is even worse than we
originally thought.The ties that bind,
in this case it’s millions and millions of dollars, tie the Clinton campaign
and, no doubt, her presidency if she wins, to the will of Saudi Arabia.That is not a good thing for this country.